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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 4
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Officers in Solomon’s court are listed—Solomon reigns in peace and prosperity over a large kingdom—His wisdom and understanding exceed those of all men.
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So</span> king Solomon was king over all Israel.
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And these <i>were</i> the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the priest,
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Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scribes.">scribes</a>; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 127: 6; D&C 128: 2.">recorder</a>.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 2: 35.">Benaiah</a> the son of Jehoiada <i>was</i> over the host: and Zadok and <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 2: 27.">Abiathar</a> <i>were</i> the priests:
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And Azariah the son of Nathan <i>was</i> over the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 27; 1 Kgs. 5: 16; 1 Kgs. 9: 23.">officers</a>: and Zabud the son of Nathan <i>was</i> principal officer, <i>and</i> the king’s friend:
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And Ahishar <i>was</i> over the household: and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 5: 14; 1 Kgs. 12: 18.">Adoniram</a> the son of Abda <i>was</i> over the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE conscripted labor.">tribute</a>.
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&#182; And Solomon had twelve <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Delegation of Responsibility.">officers</a> over all Israel, which <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 4.">provided</a> victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
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And these <i>are</i> their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
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The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan:
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The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him <i>pertained</i> Sochoh, and all the land of Hepher:
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The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
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Baana the son of Ahilud; <i>to him pertained</i> Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean, which <i>is</i> by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, <i>even</i> unto <i>the place that is</i> beyond Jokneam:
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The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him <i>pertained</i> the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which <i>are</i> in Gilead; to him <i>also pertained</i> the region of Argob, which <i>is</i> in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
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Ahinadab the son of Iddo <i>had</i> Mahanaim:
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Ahimaaz <i>was</i> in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
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Baanah the son of Hushai <i>was</i> in Asher and in Aloth:
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Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
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Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
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Geber the son of Uri <i>was</i> in the country of Gilead, <i>in</i> the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and <i>he was</i> the only officer which <i>was</i> in the land.
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&#182; Judah and Israel <i>were</i> many, as the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 17 (17-18); 1 Ne. 12: 1.">sand</a> which <i>is</i> by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
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And Solomon <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 9: 26.">reigned</a> over all kingdoms from <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/21b" mark="b" type="E" title="IE the Euphrates; Gen. 15: 18.">the</a> river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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&#182; And Solomon’s <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 8: 15 (10-22).">provision</a> for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
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Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
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For he had <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 31 (31-33).">dominion</a> over all <i>the region</i> on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/24b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR Gaza.">Azzah</a>, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 5: 4; 1 Chr. 22: 9.">peace</a> on all sides round about him.
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And Judah and Israel dwelt <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB confidently, securely.">safely</a>, every man under his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Micah 4: 4.">vine</a> and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
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&#182; And Solomon had forty <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 10: 26; 2 Chr. 1: 14.">thousand</a> stalls of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/26b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 16; 2 Chr. 9: 25.">horses</a> for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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And those <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 4: 5.">officers</a> provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month: they lacked nothing.
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Barley also and straw for the horses and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/28a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR fast steeds.">dromedaries</a> brought they unto the place where <i>the officers</i> were, every man according to his charge.
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&#182; And God <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Guidance, Divine.">gave</a> Solomon <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 3: 12.">wisdom</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/29c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Wisdom of; TG Understanding.">understanding</a> exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that <i>is</i> on the sea shore.
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And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
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For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
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And he spake three thousand <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/32a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 1: 1; Prov. 10: 1; Prov. 25: 1.">proverbs</a>: and his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/32b" mark="b" type="A" title="Song. 1: 1.">songs</a> were a thousand and five.
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And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that <i>is</i> in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
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And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/4/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 9: 23.">all</a> kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
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